novelhk Chapter 399 Sequelae
Chapter 399 Sequelae
The morning light softly spread into the cave like a veil, casting a light golden halo on the stone walls.
Xiao Zi curled up in the haystack, rubbing his eyes with his paws in a daze. His dragon tail swung unconsciously, sweeping some dry grass aside.
He smacked his lips and was about to turn over and continue sleeping when he suddenly started and opened his eyes wide.
"Oh no! That cunning mouse!"
Xiao Zi jumped up with a somersault, and her purple scales sparkled in the morning light.
He slapped his head with his paw in annoyance - he was so tired last night that he forgot to keep an eye on the cunning rat man!
If we let that guy get away, when Hu Qing wakes up...
Xiao Zi couldn't help but shudder, and Hu Qing's half-smile appeared in her mind.
He immediately pricked up his ears and looked around the cave vigilantly.
Beside him, Hu Qing and Gu Yang were still unconscious, their faces as pale as paper, and their breathing was weak but steady.
Xiao Zi leaned in closer and sniffed, confirming that their injuries had not worsened, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
When he turned around, he caught a glimpse of something strange about the corpse.
Xiao Zi narrowed her eyes and walked slowly closer - the storage bag had obviously been moved.
The bone ring was also crookedly placed on Zhe's finger, completely different from the way it looked when he threw it down yesterday.
"Oh, as expected..." Xiao Zi's dragon whiskers trembled, and a hint of understanding flashed in his eyes.
He glanced at the rat man in the corner with contempt, thinking that this guy was sensible and didn't dare to take the things away.
Walking to the depths of the cave, Xiao Zi found that the rat man was curled up in a crevice and sleeping soundly, his belly rising and falling with his breathing, and a trace of suspicious crystal saliva hanging from the corner of his mouth.
Seeing this funny scene, Xiao Zi couldn't help but poke the rat man's round belly with her claws.
"You're smart." Xiao Zi looked at the snoring rat man, "If you dare to run away..."
He bared his teeth, imagining the scene of roasting the mouse to charcoal.
Then he stared at the flattering rat man in front of him, a hint of mockery flashing in his purple eyes.
This guy sneakily broke free from the restrictions last night. Although I don't know why he didn't escape, he definitely has no good intentions.
Thinking of this, he raised his claws and slapped the rat man's round belly again without any hesitation.
"Ouch! Who dares to hit your Grandpa Rat——"
The rat man suddenly woke up and was about to curse, but when he looked up and met Xiao Zi's pair of cold eyes, he trembled all over and immediately put on a flattering face:
"Long...Brother Long...no...Boss Long! Just tell me what you want!"
Xiao Zi looked at the rat man's servile appearance with satisfaction, and swung his tail happily.
He glanced at the mountains of resources in the corner, then looked at the unconscious Hu Qing and Gu Yang, and suddenly had an idea.
"Shh-"
The sharp dragon claws scratched the ground, sending gravel flying.
Xiao Zi carefully carved lines of crooked words on the ground. Some of the strokes were so deep that the soil could be seen, while others were so shallow that they were almost invisible.
After finishing, he clapped his paws proudly and motioned for the rat man to come over and take a look.
The rat man approached cautiously, squinting his eyes to decipher the distorted "words".
Every character was swaying like a drunk, with a horizontal stroke missing here and an extra stroke there, which made the rat man's eyes twitch.
He raged in his mind, "Did this damn dragon write with his toes? How dare he show off such ugly words!"
But on the surface, the rat man pretended to be enlightened: "Boss Long is wise! I will do it right away!"
He ran to the pile of resources happily and began to classify the resources according to his own understanding.
Every time he picked up one, he would secretly glance at Xiao Zi's reaction.
"This...put it here..." The rat man threw away a poisonous mushroom.
"This...put it here..." He threw down another piece of ore.
Xiao Zi impatiently blew out a wisp of dragon breath, but it was too slow, which scared the rat man into a panic.
Xiao Zi squatted on the side to supervise, and occasionally whipped the ground with his tail to remind the rat man to move faster.
The rat man cursed the evil dragon's ancestors in his heart, but he didn't dare to neglect his hands.
He squatted in front of the resource pile with a bitter face, picking up various items with his paws nimbly.
While sorting, he cursed in his heart: This damn Zilong actually let him, the number one thief of the rat clan, do such menial work!
"Put this stone over here..."
The rat man gritted his teeth and threw a piece of hematite to the left, "Put the hemostatic herbs over there..." A green spirit grass was carefully placed on the right.
His claws suddenly touched a cold jade box. When he opened it, he saw three blood-red pills neatly stacked inside.
"This is... a third-grade blood pill?!" The rat man's eyes lit up. This can heal wounds!
I don’t know which poor orc’s treasure was looted by this little dragon, but now it’s mine.
He glanced at the dozing Xiao Zi slyly, and his claws quietly reached into his arms...
"Snapped!"
A purple dragon's tail hit the back of his claws accurately, causing the rat man to scream in pain.
Xiao Zi had opened her eyes at some point and was staring at him coldly.
"It's a misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding!" The rat man put the jade box back into the pile of herbs with a wry smile. "I just saw it was put in the wrong place..."
A breath of air with lightning spurted out of Xiao Zi's nose, scaring the rat man so much that he quickly buried his head in his work.
He finally understood that this dragon was very smart and could not be fooled at all.
As the sun rose higher, the temperature in the cave also began to rise.
The rat man worked hard, sweating profusely, and finally heaved a sigh of relief after putting the last piece of star-patterned steel into the ore pile.
"Boss Long, everything has been divided!"
He pointed at seven piles of resources categorized by category on the ground as if presenting treasures. "This pile is healing herbs, this pile is refining ores, and this pile..."
Xiao Zi nodded with satisfaction and flapped her wings to fly to the pile of herbs.
He first sniffed each herb carefully, then used his claws to check and confirm that there was no poison mixed in, and then took all the herbs away.
The rat man slumped on the ground, rubbing his aching back.
Looking at the results of my morning's work, I actually felt a sense of accomplishment.
But then he thought again and realized that he was actually working for his enemy, and he immediately became deflated.
Xiao Zi divided the herbs into two parts, crushed them into juice with her claws, and carefully fed them into Hu Qing and Gu Yang's mouths.
As the medicine went down their throats, their complexions improved visibly.
"Hmph... you're smart." Xiao Zi glanced at the rat man. Although he couldn't speak, his eyes clearly said, "If you dare to play tricks, I'll roast you right now."
The rat man shrank his neck and suddenly felt a chill on his back.
Only then did he realize that if he had tampered with the herbs just now, he would probably be a charred corpse by now...
Night slowly fell, and as expected, the surroundings became dark.
Hu Qing's consciousness slowly emerged from the chaos. The first thing he felt was a tingling pain in his meridians, as if countless tiny blades were moving around in his body.
He tried to circulate his spiritual power, but found that his dantian was empty, without even a drop of spiritual power left.
What's worse is that the scene in front of him is still dark, and all the scenery within his reach seems to be covered with a thick veil.
His fingertips touched the medicine residue at the corner of his mouth. He twisted it gently and smelled the mixed scent of different herbs.
A familiar sound of scales rubbing against each other came from beside him, and the little purple furry head rubbed against him.
"Well done." Hu Qing rubbed Xiao Zi's faucet, his voice hoarse like sandpaper rubbing against it.
He groped his way to Gu Yang's side, and just as his palm touched the other's arm, he suddenly retracted it——
The temperature was terrifyingly high, almost like a red-hot iron.
"Fever? That shouldn't be the case!" Hu Qing frowned and then denied the idea.
A Nascent Soul cultivator has long transcended the ordinary world, and ordinary diseases and evils cannot invade him at all.
But the temperature coming from the palm was indeed abnormal. Gu Yang's exposed skin was abnormally flushed, and even his breath was hot.
He took out two jade-colored healing pills from his storage ring and carefully pried open Gu Yang's teeth to put them in.
The pill melted in his mouth, but Gu Yang's body temperature did not drop, but rose even higher after a while.
Hu Qing's spiritual sense "saw" that the air around Gu Yang was slightly distorted due to the high temperature.
"Water...try to cool it down."
A half-person-high oak bathtub was taken out and clear mountain spring water was poured into it.
When Hu Qing put Gu Yang into the water, an astonishing scene happened——
"laugh--!"
A sharp sound of steaming suddenly sounded, and the water surface it touched instantly boiled!
Billowing white mist rose into the sky, and the entire cave was filled with steam in an instant.